Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 02:15:36 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Wartan Hachaturow <wart@tepkom.ru> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any TODO out there? Message-ID: <3DD22648.35D7B3DE@mindspring.com> References: <20021113085124.GA23125@mojo.tepkom.ru>
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Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > I did recently acquired an alpha machine (164LX), and now > looking forward in helping FreeBSD's Alpha port. > Is there any TODO list available for this port? Any things that > need to be done? There are some really hard ones; I'm sure someone else will give a different list with the easy ones on it. Here are two of the really hard ones: (1) How much RAM do you have? FreeBSD Alpha doesn't work on >2G because some drivers need to use the bus space functions to make sure all DMAs occur in the window accessible to the various busses. For an small overview: cd /usr/src/sys/alpha find . -type f | xargs fgrep 2G There are other things that could be done, as well, but this one needs someone with a system with enough RAM and who cares, to work on it. (2) If you are a real massochist, you could work on making FreeBSD work with firmware other than SRM (that's a *lot* of work, though). People occasionally complain that FreeBSD won't boot on NT-only Alpha machines. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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